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THE DISEASES OF 
emollient cataplasms were placed under the belly, and clysters of 
the same character injected. 
In the course of the day the intensity of the symptoms increased 
— the thirst was insatiable — the animal drank nearly a pint of 
water, which, in a short time afterwards, he returned by vomit. 
The respiration became more accelerated towards night — the debi- 
lity was extreme — the stercoral and urinary evacuations quite 
suspended — a glairy yellow matter was discharged from the anus 
— there was extreme tension of the abdomen, and the expression of 
great pain when the least pressure was made upon it. The finger 
being introduced into the rectum, no stercoral matter could be de- 
tected. The animal was again placed in a bath towards evening. 
3 d . — The symptoms unchanged — baths, cataplasms, and injec- 
tions, as before. Towards evening the patient expressed the most 
extreme state of distress — the respiration became more and more 
accelerated — the eyes were fixed — and, in the course of the night, 
the animal died. 
He was opened on the following morning. The stomach and 
intestines presented nothing unusual but a slight blush of inflam- 
mation on the mucous membrane of the rectum. The gall-bladder, 
liver, and spleen were in a normal state, as were the kidneys and 
the ureters. The bladder was distended to the greatest degree — 
its mucous membrane was of a brown-red colour, especially towards 
the fundus, where it presented several spots of ecchymosis. The 
prostates were much enlarged, and their tissue had degenerated 
into a greyish brown mass. This altered structure extending 
through every part of these organs, pressed on the neck of the 
bladder, and closed the urinary canal, which did not in the slightest 
degree participate in the scirrhous state of the prostates. 
The lungs were gorged with blood — the four cavities of the 
heart, and the large vessels, were filled with fibrinous clots. The 
other contents of the thorax were free from disease. No trace of 
lesion was discoverable either in the brain or spinal marrow. 
Scirrhous Induration of the large Prostate, and 
Ramollissement of a Portion of the Gland. 
By M. U. Leblanc. 
A BARBET dog, five years old, had been occasionally subject to 
retention of urine nearly three years. These attacks were at first 
rare, but they had become much more frequent during the last year. 
They gave way, for some time, to a regimen of milk exclusively, 
continued during some days. 
June 11, 1828. — A new attack of retention of urine supervened. 
We employed the same simple means as before, but without the 
slightest success. The mistress of the dog, and whose side he 
seldom quitted, attributed this attack to his running, and with some 
